We knew we had to do something special to welcome the Terrible Twos, so we planned some terribly fun activities for their birthday on December 19th. Although it is crazy having Hayden, Payson and Madison’s birthday so close to Christmas, there are lots of additional activities available for us to do.
We started our day by treating them to breakfast at a local café and then heading to see the Northpark train exhibit. The kids got to wear these cute little conductor hats, which Hayden especially loved, of course.
They simply loved the trains and could have spent all morning in the exhibit. It was a big hit!
Then, we went to Santa Story Time. The kids loved seeing Santa, but his stories were a bit too complicated for young toddlers. Following story time we attended the Puppet Show, which the girls loved! Although Payson enjoyed the puppets at the State Fair this fall (and some of the puppets were even the same ones), he was spooked when the first door flung open from the puppets' house and a puppet’s head shot out. He never did recover and spent the rest of the show with his head tucked into my shoulder. It was really cute though.
Keith and I gave Hayden, Payson and Madison a costume bin with lots of dress-up clothes for their birthday. The kids loved all of the fun clothes and accessories and spent the next few hours trying on their new costumes. Payson made the perfect Muscle Man!
There was a lot of mixing and matching as you see here with Madison wearing the Belle costume and purple fairy wings, which was her favorite dress-up item.
With each new costume they wanted to go see themselves in the mirror. Hayden was especially pleased with her various looks and would admire herself with a smile.
Payson made quite a jolly Police Man.
Although the kids have not yet seen Toy Story, Hayden enjoyed the Jessie costume and posed happily for the camera.
The next evening we took them back out to see Christmas lights, which was their favorite activity of December. They'd each pick a stuffed animal to bring along while Mommy and Daddy enjoyed sipping hot chocolate or cider. The kids would continuously request, "more lights, more lights" and exclaim, "Santa!", "Snowman!", "Reindeer!", "Baby Jesus!" and descriptors such as "moving" for the moving reindeer and "sleeping" when the characters were laughing with squinted eyes (which looked like sleeping to the kids). They are sure going to miss the Christmas lights!
The pediatrician gave us approval to move onto lower fat milk, so this week I poured their last glasses of Whole Milk. Goodbye babies, hello toddlerhood! (Sniff, sniff.)
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